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March already, and what to do... I think it's time to either pass the thread on for a little while, or move it back to just a yearly thread. Unfortunately, I don't have the desire at the moment to keep it going monthly how it was, and I think if there isn't anyone else who cares to, it's probably best to return to a simpler text-based OP without boxart (partly because GOG took away the "free" boxart a while ago, and I have to search for / create them now).

I know the number of people still using the thread seems to have gone down a bit over the last few months, but I don't want to end it entirely if it still is useful to people. So I guess I'll see if people are fine with it returning to a simpler, yearly format again - or if there's anyone who wants to try their hand at it.

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March already, and what to do... I think it's time to either pass the thread on for a little while, or move it back to just a yearly thread. Unfortunately, I don't have the desire at the moment to keep it going monthly how it was, and I think if there isn't anyone else who cares to, it's probably best to return to a simpler text-based OP without boxart (partly because GOG took away the "free" boxart a while ago, and I have to search for / create them now).

I know the number of people still using the thread seems to have gone down a bit over the last few months, but I don't want to end it entirely if it still is useful to people. So I guess I'll see if people are fine with it returning to a simpler, yearly format again - or if there's anyone who wants to try their hand at it.

You've done an awesome job, this thread unfortunately doesn't seem to generate much hits. Most of the discussion for the sale is going on the Steam thread it seems. I'm all for a year-round thread, hope to still see your contributions though, much more verbose and informative than anything I've said.

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Second, I believe it should be a yearly thread. IMO, there are enough of us to justify a GOG thread, but not enough to justify a monthly one (especially with the effort it looks like you put into it...).

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March already, and what to do... I think it's time to either pass the thread on for a little while, or move it back to just a yearly thread. Unfortunately, I don't have the desire at the moment to keep it going monthly how it was, and I think if there isn't anyone else who cares to, it's probably best to return to a simpler text-based OP without boxart (partly because GOG took away the "free" boxart a while ago, and I have to search for / create them now).

I know the number of people still using the thread seems to have gone down a bit over the last few months, but I don't want to end it entirely if it still is useful to people. So I guess I'll see if people are fine with it returning to a simpler, yearly format again - or if there's anyone who wants to try their hand at it.

I appreciate what you have done with the monthly threads, they look fantastic and are quite informative for anyone looking for a good source of updated info. Unfortunately, the GOG side has always moved much slower than Steam, and of course there is the added Community move slowdown effect as well. I think a move back to a yearly thread is a good idea, I do hope that the weekly/monthly updated text-based release info is still updated though.

On a side note, apparently there is no Insomnia Promo thread this year? Last year it got quite frantic and seemed to bring in a bunch of new people to GOG. For anyone interested in the updated list, here is a nice page for info on what games have already been up. I think we are about half-way through the second wave with a third wave of repeats coming after that. Bottom url has prices in USD, you can change it to another currency as well by replacing the info at the end of the url.

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March already, and what to do... I think it's time to either pass the thread on for a little while, or move it back to just a yearly thread. Unfortunately, I don't have the desire at the moment to keep it going monthly how it was, and I think if there isn't anyone else who cares to, it's probably best to return to a simpler text-based OP without boxart (partly because GOG took away the "free" boxart a while ago, and I have to search for / create them now).

I know the number of people still using the thread seems to have gone down a bit over the last few months, but I don't want to end it entirely if it still is useful to people. So I guess I'll see if people are fine with it returning to a simpler, yearly format again - or if there's anyone who wants to try their hand at it.

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Here's a PC Gamer review from a couple of years ago:www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-bloodnet/
I can't recall if it's like Darkseed where you pretty much need a guide to not screw yourself over going through, may have been addressed in the article. I've had it on my account for a long time but never got past the initial turning into a vampire portion before some other game grabbed my attention.

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Here's a PC Gamer review from a couple of years ago:www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-bloodnet/
I can't recall if it's like Darkseed where you pretty much need a guide to not screw yourself over going through, may have been addressed in the article. I've had it on my account for a long time but never got past the initial turning into a vampire portion before some other game grabbed my attention.

Nice review, thanks for posting that! Now I can't decide if I should stay away as far as possible, or get it just to experience "a city of people who seem to have been smacked with Whack-A-Mole hammers as well as the ugly stick".

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March already, and what to do... I think it's time to either pass the thread on for a little while, or move it back to just a yearly thread. Unfortunately, I don't have the desire at the moment to keep it going monthly how it was, and I think if there isn't anyone else who cares to, it's probably best to return to a simpler text-based OP without boxart (partly because GOG took away the "free" boxart a while ago, and I have to search for / create them now).

I know the number of people still using the thread seems to have gone down a bit over the last few months, but I don't want to end it entirely if it still is useful to people. So I guess I'll see if people are fine with it returning to a simpler, yearly format again - or if there's anyone who wants to try their hand at it.

I don't often post in these threads, but I try to read through them every so often, so I figured I'd give my two cents. The monthly threads are great but clearly a lot of work. Thanks for all the time you've put into them! I'll miss reading them but a yearly thread will be perfectly fine.

I paid good money for this Dynex!

I did a double take -- I was sure this game was going to remain trapped on Steam. FEAR 2 is easily one of my favorite shooters ever. People overuse the word "visceral" now, but FEAR 2's gunplay is easily deserving of the word. The game is so fast paced and violent that it just feels right.

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Special note for Outlaws, as that game is, to my reckoning, relatively uncommon in the wild yet is a fairly well-liked early-FPS. Built on the Dark Forces engine, although it's a marked departure from that game in style.

They are working on getting more.
I could imagine that this involves quite a bit of work on GOG's part, finding the key databases and I guess negotiations with publishers, all basically to give the games away for free on GOG. I don't have any PC retail games, but this is still some impressive dedication!

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March already, and what to do... I think it's time to either pass the thread on for a little while, or move it back to just a yearly thread. Unfortunately, I don't have the desire at the moment to keep it going monthly how it was, and I think if there isn't anyone else who cares to, it's probably best to return to a simpler text-based OP without boxart (partly because GOG took away the "free" boxart a while ago, and I have to search for / create them now).

I don't want to heap a bunch of undesirable work on your plate, but even if it was just a weekly or even monthly text/link only update of titles added throughout the previous week/month to the OP, that would be great. It was a nice aspect of these GOG threads to be able to quickly check what was added over the months to the GOG library without resorting to looking through loads of news releases on GOG itself.

Maybe we could also get a thread name change as well to remove the "February"?

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I don't want to heap a bunch of undesirable work on your plate, but even if it was just a weekly or even monthly text/link only update of titles added throughout the previous week/month to the OP, that would be great. It was a nice aspect of these GOG threads to be able to quickly check what was added over the months to the GOG library without resorting to looking through loads of news releases on GOG itself.

Maybe we could also get a thread name change as well to remove the "February"?

If you care, check out the formatting I'm going for in the OP, and if you have any suggestions or thoughts, I'm open to them of course. It'll be a lot easier to maintain, and I'll try to list any OTs or LTTPs along with launch sales next to each release (and even impressions too, if I'm feeling like killing some time). The games where there are no threads or impressions at GAF will have that indicated as well, and the games where there is nothing next to them, just means I haven't checked them.

I also wanted to get the OSs listed too, for all the linux gamers that follow the thread. Maybe with a yearly format again, it will be a little livelier... or maybe not.

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